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Re: Electric fans/power gain

To: "Michael D. Porter" <mdporter@rt66.com>
Subject: Re: Electric fans/power gain
From: Chris Rodgers <The.4.Rodgers@xtra.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:26:09 +1200
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
References: <199803270603.GAA03609@fuspcjcc.culham.ukaea.org.uk> <98Mar27.091140gmt.66308@gateway.ukaea.org.uk> <351B929B.30BE@rt66.com>
Michael D. Porter wrote:

> At idle, with the car
> standing still, the pressure is 1.0 atm incoming. The fan must create a
> pressure drop behind the radiator sufficient to move air through the
> radiator. At, say, 60 mph, the pressure at the incoming side of the
> radiator might be 1.1-1.2 atm, but the velocity through the radiator is
> approx. 50-60 mph, depending upon the resistance of the radiator to
> flow. 

MMMmmmmmmmmm.............? (no really, I understand!)

> Had Triumph been building knockoffs of the Austin Mini in the `70s, 

Perish the though!

> approximations of what might have been properly engineered. (!)

Mate, you should know by now that the words, "properly engineered" and
"Triumph", simply can't function in the same sentence!


Chris 

Thinking happy thoughts...... (bloody fairy dust!)

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